VTA Seminar for Foresters

What does VTA mean, of what avail is it for the forester?

VTA is the abbreviation of 'visual tree assessment'. For foresters, VTA is especially interesting concerning the legal duty to maintain safety of trees along traffic routes, for example at the accomplishment of the annual inspection walkway of fringe trees at public roads. But also when the forester is asked by an owner of garden for example if his nut tree was dangerous, some basic knowledge of VTA is highly helpful.

In the main part the class shall achieve that on the one hand yet overlooked flaws are recognized and appropiate conclusions are drawn; on the other hand, not every tree yet renowed as perculiar does have to be chopped down preventively by a long shot.

Beside the kinds of fail, the seminar will defer to the most important attributes of paralanguage of trees. Among other things, the meanings of increment stripes, bark buckling, ribs or branch-shedding collars are explained, but also the differences between a compression- and a tension fork, whats a hazard-beam, a spiral crack or a shear crack, etc. etc.

New in the workshop for foresters are the topics "critical H/D-ratio of solitary trees" (which isn't in critical range of tree sites inside the forest) and also "the paralanguage of fungal fruiting bodies"; the appearance of perennial fungal fruiting bodies lets conclude to the rate of depletion of wood. There is further information in the seminar Ð so you may be tense.

Price information

Participation at the VTA seminar for foresters costs 100 € (net).